Information Technologies for Diplomatic Activities by Stefano Baldi

General Questions

Is Internet use Cost effective ?


Price of sending a 42 page document
from New York to Tokyo

  Cost US$
(in US$)		 Time
Air Mail 7,40 5 days
Private Courier 16,25 24 hours
Fax 28,83 31 minutes
Internet E-mail 0,095 2 minutes

Source: Nothern River Ventures, quoted in International Union for Telecommunications "Challenges to the Network: Telecoms and the Internet", 1997

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